Eugene's Blog

I can't believe some of media reporting at the moment. Palestinians being slaughtered.  How many now, 11000 12. When will it end? All the mainstream media can ask is do you condemn Hamas? What everyone is failing to point out is that Hamas was actually backed by the Israeli regime when more moderate Palestinian groups were attempting to negotiate a settlement. The more extreme Israelis realised that they needed a terrorist group in control of Gaza and on their borders in order to justify a military solution. In this sense the right-wing regime in Israel is at least partly responsible for the death of those innocent Israelis that it is now using to justify the killings of thousands of innocent Palestinians. The Israelis have been using genocidal language for a long time but now they are talking about the Gaza Nakba, a final solution. It’s insane that we have got to this point, that the Israeli government haven’t been reigned in. And some of the revisions of history that I have heard...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a complex one. It's origins lie in a British government declaration in 1917 to set-up a Jewish state in Palestine    Key words for me in the text are these: "it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine",   After the First World War the British controlled Palestine and from then, but particularly from the the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, the Palestinian have been losing land. Israel didn't just cleanse Palestinians in 1948, when it was founded as a Western colonial project, and again under cover of a regional war in 1967. It also worked to ethnically cleanse Palestinians every day between those dates and afterwards. The aim was to move them off their historic lands, and either expel them beyond Israel’s new, expanded borders or concentrate them into small ghettoes inside those borders – as a holding ...